Principal Engineer-Backend (Java)

We are looking for someone who is passionate about building, owning, and operating massively

scalable systems with strong architectural design skills and like improving things and can design

complete solutions to solve challenging problems.

You will be responsible for leading engineering efforts in the design, development, testing, and

deployment of highly scalable products and to create extendable design and easy to maintain

technical foundation with the long-term vision in mind. Your role is crucial in mentoring the

team and maintaining visible benefit to end-users in an iterative fast-paced environment by

creating solutions suitable for the job in a real-time, highly data-driven organization.

Role & Responsibilities

• Ensure the quality of architecture and design of systems by serving as a technical lead

on our most demanding, cross-functional teams.

• Functionally decompose complex problems into simple, straight-forward solutions
• Leverage knowledge of internal and industry in design decisions and have zeal & drive

to take end to end ownership.

• Exert technical influence over multiple teams, increasing their productivity and

effectiveness by sharing your deep knowledge and experience.

• Build performant, scalable, yet secure, enterprise-ready cost-effective back end

architectures that can support millions of users in parallel while re-architecting the

existing problems

• Lead design and development of products working closely with the business team.
• Independently own software components and co-own entire applications with a small

group of fellow developers and review codes.

• Should have experience of working with Product Management to create product

roadmaps functional specifications, design specification of features based on

customer/product requirements

• Research, experiment, and recommend new technologies that can help increase
• productivity/reduce technical risk or debt.

Preferred Candidate Profile

• 7+ years of software development experience with Enterprise Java (JDK 8 and above),

Spring (Boot, MVC, AOP, DI), ORM Frameworks.

• 4+ years of experience contributing to the architecture, and design (LLD, HLD,

OO design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems.

• Strong experience in data structures & algorithms, and their space & time complexities.
• Strong working experience in an agile environment and technically leading the team of

developers and reviewing codes.

• Experience in high traffic, highly scalable, microservices, distributed system designs.
• Experience working with microservices-based architecture.
• Hands-on experience working with Databases like SQL & NoSQL
• Hands-on experience working with caches like Ehcache, Redis, etc.
• Solid understanding of multithreading, MVC, and strong OO skills with demonstrated

experience in developing complex and reusable APIs and understanding of the full

software development life cycle.